DAVIS v. LHIM

Docket No. 59284.

124 Mich. App. 291 (1983)

335 N.W.2d 481

DAVIS v. LHIM

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 21, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, Bluestone, Erlich, Rosen & Bartnick (by Steven G. Silverman), for plaintiff.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and George L. McCarger and Craig Atchinson, Assistants Attorney General, for defendant.

Before: R.M. MAHER, P.J., and BRONSON and CYNAR, JJ.


R.M. MAHER, P.J.

In this wrongful death case, defendant appeals by right from the judgment entered for plaintiff upon a jury verdict.

In 1975, defendant, a staff psychiatrist at the Northville State Hospital, had under his care John Patterson, the son of plaintiff's decedent, Mollie Barnes. Patterson had a long history of psychological disorder, having voluntarily signed himself into Northville on six occasions from 1972 to 1975 with complaints of insomnia...

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